they possess, travelling over the world, jets, and others worldly things are the parameter they use to gauge their spiritual progress. Those things that serve as thorn that choked the Word of God in the heart of men are the one they usually exalted as a sign of God’s blessing unlike the Apostles the measured their spiritual progress with the rate the Word of God, the whole counsel of God, not half or quarter truth, were multiplied, prevailed and been glorified of all. Why are many ministers incorrigibly preaching heresy today despite their access to the truth, because they have an axe to grind, removal of some truth that can drive some so-called members and the financiers away. Some have built monument of heresy and wrote books on it and to destroy them now and openly told their members that they have been operating off key is a big problem. They actually love their wealth above the interest of the vine Dresser and the spiritual welfare of their members. Apollos would have led those in Ephesus astray completely if not that he was teachable and received the correction from Aquila and Priscilla. It was Apostle Paul that God used to reconvert his converts later when he got to Ephesus.
The leaders of the children of Israel led the people of God astray because of their own selfish interest and erroneous teaching and were destroyed later. Please let us turn our feet to the right way of God and plant our feet solidly on the Word of God and pass it to others so that they may bring forth good fruit unto the Lord. Have you seen where ministers cursed the people they prayed for simply because they didn’t give them anything after they had breakthrough. Today the preaching of tithe, offering, firstfruit, special sacrifices, prophetic offering and the like has been exalted above the teaching of the pure Word of God. Do you love the souls of the people you are leading or their gold alone is your target, that will perish with the world? Have you forgotten that in this world we have no continue city but seek for one to come and all what you are amassing now without walking properly in the way of God will send you to hell?
Eight
The Fruit Bearing Message
But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin (Micah 3:8).
The followers may even love deceit more than the truth, it is not the fault of majority of them because they don’t know the truth and whatever the leaders present to them, they take. The great leaders of Israel at this time were famous and commanded the attention of the majority but they had departed from the way of the Lord. They had set aside the Word of God like many of our pastors today. They are healing the heart of the daughters of God slightly saying to them peace, peace. They preach motivation messages and give them prayer points that can stir up greediness and covetousness from the heart of their followers. The kind of message they are giving to the people cannot produce fruit of righteousness and holiness in them rather greediness. By the time God raised true prophets to them their message contradicted the message of pastor Fair-speech. Both the leaders and their followers ignore the counsel of God for their life until they perished. The Lord cannot change His standard for any man as many false prophets and teachers claim to do. Program has been multiply in the churches without the effect in the life of Pastors and followers. Everyone is emphasizing money, mansion, and all what the world can offer without preaching against sin and all unrighteousness. No warning of God’s judgment but too much emphasis on God’s love and mercy while the church is becoming worldly and wickedness increase even in the Holy place. None of the true ministers of the Bible preached like that except false prophets.
Let favour be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly and will not behold the majesty of the LORD. With my soul have I desired Thee in the night, yes with my spirit within me will I seek Thee early, for when thy judgment are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness (Isaiah 26:9,8).
The kind of fruit bearing message is not the one people will listened to and be clapping or blowing whistle or screaming like cricket. It is the message that will reveal their precarious condition of sin and the judgment of God upon the unrepentant. Men generally are in the habit of misinterpreting the Word of God and take it for granted. It is easier for men to eat the manner of God than to obey his commandments. They count the Word of God as impracticable but love His sweet promises. God can’t partake with our sin but He wants us to be partakers of His holiness and righteousness.
The fruit of righteousness can’t be produced by man with a sugar-coated mouth. Mr. Fair-speech can’t preach that kind of message. Our Lord Jesus Christ warned constantly against the danger of hell fire, the judgment of God upon unrepentant sinner.
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins yet they seek me daily (Isaiah 58:1-2).
It is not that they are not coming to church but God could not see any perfect fruit in them. There was not fruit worthy of the Lord among them. The preachers could not declare the whole counsel of God. They are not like Isaiah, Paul, Micah, John the Baptist. They couldn’t show the people their sins any longer rather they would ask them to pay their tithe, offering and make other sacrifices in sin and iniquity. And they could not produce fruits unto God
But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord and of judgment, and of might to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin (Micah 3:8),
Who is like Prophet Micah today that is truly full of power and of might by the Holy Spirit to declare the whole counsel of God in the churches to people so as to bring forth fruit unto God? Let us remember that, all the fruit of false prophets in the Scripture perished in captivity, by sword, and hell fire. The Pharisees and the Scribes made their fruits (converts) twice fold children of hell than themselves. The fruits of the heretics in the Scriptures overthrew the faith of some (2 Timothy 2:17-18). We have a lot of them today. God’s counsel for every believer in Him is to study His Word themselves and ask Him for the Spirit of truth to reveal the whole truth to them. Except you know the truth yourself, you stand the ground of being misled by those that you trust. The whole counsel of God is not a few passages of Scripture the ministers frequently use to deceive the people.
When the gospel is not preached in its totality, it will not bring any fruit unto perfection and thereby fit for destruction. Is your sermon in line with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you often preach from the Sermon on the Mount, and other of His core messages and sharp rebuke? How often you center the hearts of your hearers to heaven as He did or how often are you warning them constantly about the danger and the torment of hell fire and showing them the way out? How often you constantly make them to realize from your preaching about the futility of possession the world and the goods thereof without their genuine salvation and watchfulness for the Lord return? Is the prayers pattern of Apostle Paul for believers the primary prayers point you are praying for yourself and those that are hearing you and equally motivating them to do the same? Are you a minister after the order of our Lord Jesus Christ and His apostles or after the order of Prophet Balaam that only love the wages of unrighteousness siding only how offering and special sacrifices will come out from them? Do you care whether their spiritual house is standing strong with sound Word of God you are using to build them or with the physical structures with the life of the members all tainted with sin? Do you think the kind of message you are preaching will take you members to heaven or is like peace, peace prophets of the Old Testament that led Israelites to captivity through their erroneous teaching and practices? Are you ready to release the error you have been preaching before and now submit yourself to the sound truth of the Word of God just as Apollos yielded to Aquila and Priscilla? Knowing this that the kind of messages you are preaching will make your followers either to conform to the image of Christ or your own image. Conformity to the whole counsel of God produce His image in us and anything less will create light and darkness together in man. Any part of one life
that is not in line with the knowledge of truth will be occupy by lie; an entrance for the father of lies to operate.
Nine
The Inevitable Judgment
He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: CUT IT DOWN; WHY CUMBERETH IT THE GROUND? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: AND IF IT BEAR FRUIT, WELL: AND IF NOT, THEN AFTER THAT THOU SHALT CUT IT DOWN (Luke 13:6-9).
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he